Rock Island daily Argus., 1887-11-05

WHrs ali itbFht't4s EepoFtS OF nlo IN fdIis,
Vienna and London, which are so many vile
lies. If you refuse to marry me- he said.
'you admit that these reports are true-you
admit that you are afraid TO face society in
the character of my wife What could
answert There was no contradicting him
he was plainly right; if Ipersisted in my re-
fussl, the utter destruction of my reputation
would be the result. | consented to let the
wedding take place as we had arranged it
and left him. The night has passed. / am
here, with my fixed conviction-thati innocent
woman is ordained TO have fatal influence
over my life. am here with my one aues-
tion to put, to the one man who can answer
it. For the last time, sir, what am Ia de-
| mon who has seen the a avenging angea or only
poor mad woman. misled by the delusion of
a deranged niind?'
DR. Wyhrow rose from his chair, deter
mined to close the interview.
He was strongly and painfully impressed
by what he had heard The longer he had
listened to her the more irresistihly the con-
viction of the woman's wickedness had forced
itself upon him He tried vainly to think of
her as a person to be pitied-a person with a
morbdly sensitive Imagination, conscious of
the capacities for evil which lie dormant in
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| aThank YOU, sir. There is your fee"
| With those words she rose. Her wild
black ewes looked upward with an expression
of despair so defiant and so horrible in its
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head unable 10 endure the sight of it The
hare idea of taking ANYTHING from her-not
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touched-suddenly revolted him. Still. with
| out looking at her, he said, Take IL back; |
| don't want any fee"
She neither needed nor heard him Still
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| @Let the end come ! have done with the
struggle; l submit"
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the doctor and left the room
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